Jerilee Bennett

Fernando Lovo, the director of athletics at the University of Colorado, speaks as he is introduced at a news conference, Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, in Boulder, Colo. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette

CHEYENNE - Wyoming will continue to grow its reputation as the Cowboy State after the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association officially signed a development deal in late April to relocate its national headquarters, the ProRodeo Hall of Fame and the Museum of the American Cowboy to Cheyenne.

Gavin Gunter has Peanut Budder’s full attention, a service dog with one of the vendors, at the Festival at the Bark on Sunday, June 7, 2026. The festival was a…

The Aspen Acres fire grew rapidly to over 23,000 acres Monday, forcing evacuations across multiple southern Colorado communitie. Emergency shelters opened as residents fled fast-moving flames driven by high winds and red flag conditions.

The Aspen Acres fire grew to over 90,000 acres Monday, with several evacuations in place across multiple southern Colorado communities. The blaze has burned for more than a week and is now the 7th-largest wildfire in Colorado history.

Basic cadets crawl underneath barbed wire during Basic Cadet Training at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs on Thursday, July 16, 2026. (The Gazette, Michael G. Seamans) Basic…

Margot Sutton waves a Canadian flag from a bridge on I-70 in honor of Nicholas Dale, a Canadian firefighting aviation pilot who died while battling a wildfire on Colorado's Western

The sunset hyssop is drought-tolerant "hummingbird magnet" (The Gazette, Jerilee Bennett) Prairie zinnia is a compact, mounded perennial flower with thin, needle-like leaves. This native plant is especially valuable for…

FILE - Barry Morphew leaves a Fremont County court building in Canon City, Colo., with his daughters, Macy, left, and Mallory, after charges against him in the presumed death of